Update to the Unreal engine

[Sabre]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgS67BwPfFY&hd=1[/video]

Spool it up at 1080p and sit back... Developers have this engine right now and it scales for everything: triple GTX580's to the iPhone 3GS.

Official site
Write up on it

[complacent]

actors will be replaced with machines. bank on it.

[Sabre]

Probably true... It will be cheaper and we'll still get charged the same 13$ for a movie. Just like the transition from cassettes to CD's...

[Mr Kleen]

I want triple GTX580's in my iPhone.

[Sabre]

As this rate, that will be the case in 4 years... amazing how fast things are evolving.

[scheherazade]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgS67BwPfFY&hd=1[/video]

Spool it up at 1080p and sit back... Developers have this engine right now and it scales for everything: triple GTX580's to the iPhone 3GS.

Official site
Write up on it

Interesting.

This is sort of related :

http://www.simhq.com/_commentary/all_106b.html

Oleg Maddox - Maddox Games (eg. IL-2 sturmovik)

Access to simple and cheap cross platform engines will kill the industry. Too many developers begun to make something and thinking it is cool. It is really a coming crises in the industry. We saw something like this in 1998-2001 in my opinion. However, the new consoles saved the situation, but they bring the problem of the overproduction of “grey” products.

-scheherazade

[Sabre]

I skipped around to some of the other questions and it was a very interesting read. I think that it's funny that a year ago a lot of places were calling for the end of PC gaming because of piracy... but now they realize that the PC is where it is at.

While I understand the reason that they give for the graphics engines being responsible for poor ports from console to PC, I think that having graphics engines like this has lead to a huge boon to the indie game makers. I'm very happy to see more development in the actual game vs. writing a gaming engine for every single game out there.